King Mangrai
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King Mangrai was a 13th-century ruler who established the Lanna Kingdom in northern Thailand and made Chiang Mai its capital.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Mangrai canonical | 2 |
| Mangrai | 2 |
| Mangrai the Great | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1564980 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King Mangrai Context triple: [Chiang Mai, founder, King Mangrai]
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A.
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak was a prominent Cambodian royal politician and conservative leader who played a central role in the country’s politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s, notably opposing Prince Norodom Sihanouk and aligning with the pro-U.S. Lon Nol regime.
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B.
Prince Mahidol Adulyadej
Prince Mahidol Adulyadej was a Thai royal prince revered as the “Father of Modern Medicine and Public Health in Thailand” for his pivotal role in advancing the country’s medical and public health systems.
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C.
Souphanouvong
Souphanouvong was a Laotian revolutionary leader and founding figure of the communist Pathet Lao who later became the first President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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D.
King Chattergy
King Chattergy is a fictional monarch in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," ruling the fantastical realm of Gup.
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E.
Hayam Wuruk
Hayam Wuruk was a 14th-century Javanese king whose reign marked the political and cultural zenith of the Majapahit Empire in maritime Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King Mangrai Target entity description: King Mangrai was a 13th-century ruler who established the Lanna Kingdom in northern Thailand and made Chiang Mai its capital.
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A.
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak was a prominent Cambodian royal politician and conservative leader who played a central role in the country’s politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s, notably opposing Prince Norodom Sihanouk and aligning with the pro-U.S. Lon Nol regime.
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B.
Prince Mahidol Adulyadej
Prince Mahidol Adulyadej was a Thai royal prince revered as the “Father of Modern Medicine and Public Health in Thailand” for his pivotal role in advancing the country’s medical and public health systems.
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C.
Souphanouvong
Souphanouvong was a Laotian revolutionary leader and founding figure of the communist Pathet Lao who later became the first President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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D.
King Chattergy
King Chattergy is a fictional monarch in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," ruling the fantastical realm of Gup.
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E.
Hayam Wuruk
Hayam Wuruk was a 14th-century Javanese king whose reign marked the political and cultural zenith of the Majapahit Empire in maritime Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder of state
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ king ⓘ |
| alliedWith |
Ngam Muang of Phayao
ⓘ
Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
King Mangrai
ⓘ
surface form:
Mangrai the Great
Mengrai ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chiang Rai
ⓘ
Wiang Kum Kam ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1238 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Chiang Mai ⓘ |
| capitalEstablishedAt | Chiang Mai ⓘ |
| century | 13th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Mangrai Festival in northern Thailand
ⓘ
statues in Chiang Mai ⓘ |
| conqueredCity | Lamphun ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Lanna
ⓘ
surface form:
Lanna region
|
| deathYear | 1317 ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Lanna Kingdom
ⓘ
surface form:
Mangrai dynasty
|
| ethnicity | Tai Yuan ⓘ |
| father | King Lao Meng ⓘ |
| founded |
Chiang Mai
ⓘ
Chiang Rai ⓘ Lanna Kingdom ⓘ |
| influenced |
political structure of Northern Thailand
ⓘ
spread of Theravada Buddhism in Lanna ⓘ |
| knownFor |
establishing Lanna Kingdom
ⓘ
making Chiang Mai the capital of Lanna ⓘ unifying Tai city-states in northern region ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Northern Thai language
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Thai (Kam Mueang)
|
| legacy | considered a founding father of Northern Thai identity ⓘ |
| mother | Queen Ua Ming Chom ⓘ |
| name |
King Mangrai
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mangrai
|
| patronOf | Buddhist monasteries in Lanna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chiang Mai ⓘ |
| predecessorStateConquered | Hariphunchai ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Lanna
ⓘ
northern Thailand ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Thailand
|
| reignBegan | circa 1261 ⓘ |
| reignEnded | 1317 ⓘ |
| religion |
Theravada
ⓘ
surface form:
Theravada Buddhism
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| successor | Chaiyasongkhram ⓘ |
| title | King of Lanna ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: King Mangrai Description of subject: King Mangrai was a 13th-century ruler who established the Lanna Kingdom in northern Thailand and made Chiang Mai its capital.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mangrai
this entity surface form:
Mangrai
this entity surface form:
Mangrai the Great